he joins me with howard g. buffet and howard w. buffet and for purposes of simplicity we'll call h, w, g. "finding hope in a hungry world" we'll get to that soon. your reaction to this obama care and kathleen say bill uee bell >> i'm a friend of kathleens when she's in trouble. speaking on behalf of the z team, i -- you know, i like kathleen. i feel sorry for her in the position she's in. obviously, it's a huge screwup but it will get worked out. >> in your experience, you're one of america's great businessmen, do you prefer historically with your people to stick by somebody when they have had a rocky period, believing that they will be even more determined to succeed, or sometimes do you have to chop it off? >> occasionally chop it off but i usually belief in sticking by people, particularly when they are in trouble. in balance you develop a lot of loyalty with people that way and there is some people that where it goes beyond the point you can stick with them but try to stick with them. >> you judge a man, many people say, by his

we are so pleased to have howard g buffett and howard w buffett on set with us this morning.ing. so what about the name of this book---forty chances? it's all about philanthropy here. > >it's about more than philanthropy actually because it's about how you take your forty chances, forty years that we kind of all have and do the best with it. so it involves everything from philanthropy to business to whatever you can do as an individual to help. > >we only get forty chances? > >he keeps telling me he's gonna get sixty. if you think about it, when you get out of school and you get a little experience you really have about forty prime years to reach your goals, to build a legacy---whatever it is you really want to focus on. so it's trying to create a mindset and it's true, some people get a little more than forty chances but it's a number that we could make sense out of. > >what is the takeaway from this book? just give us a little nip. > >i think the takeaway is that as big as all the challenges are in the world today, if we're willing to take more risk and we're willing to be

back with three generations of buffets in the world, warren, howard g. ward w. >> the most thing about wildly famous, the worse you are, the more people like it. >> a lot of people like it. >> what is the thing most people that see you in the street and recognize you ask you? >> they come up with -- they say are you really -- you know and i say no, i'm really much better looking than he is. [ laughter ] >> see, i would ask you whether you carry your wallet and what is inside it. if i was to ask you that now, what would the answers be? >> let's take a look. >> this is the moment of television history. has this ever been on television before? >> i've had had this wallet -- >> how long have you had it, first? >> probably about 20 years. >> what do you have in it? >> here is my american express card from -- >> that's the green card. >> the green amex card. >> yeah. >> that's the one you've had the whole time. >> it goes with my cell phone. >> what other cars? >> a variety of cards but sheer a picture of the family. >> how much cash? >> more than usual. >> tha

back with three generations of buffets in the world, warren, howard g. ard w. >> the most thing about wildly famous, the worse you are, the more people like it. >> a lot of people like it. >> what is the thing most people that see you in the street and recognize you ask you? >> they come up with -- they say are you really -- you know and i say no, i'm really much better looking than he is. [ laughter ] >> see, i would ask you whether you carry your wallet and what is inside it. if i was to ask you that now, what would the answers be? >> let's take a look. >> this is the moment of television history. has this ever been on television before? >> i've had had this wallet -- >> how long have you had it, first? >> probably about 20 years. >> what do you have in it? >> here is my american express card from -- >> that's the green card. >> the green amex card. >> yeah. >> that's the one you've had the whole time. >> it goes with my cell phone. >> what other cars? >> a variety of cards but sheer a picture of the family. >> how much cash? >> more than usual. >> that

. >> chair and ceo of the howard g. buffett foundation and author of a new book, it is called 40 chances. finding hope in a hungry world. his son, howard warren buffett, is elect frat of columbia university and trustee of his father's foundation and contributed to the book with his own experiences and plans to make philanthropy a part of his life, it is good to have all of them here at this table at the same time, grandfather, son and grandson, how does it feel. >> it really does. >> it feels great. >> i am very proud of them. >> rose: you talk about that in your introductory remarks, let me start with the book. clearly because i knew your mother and understood how -- what is involved here is what you have learned, but also what you learned in addition from them. give me a sense of what it was that you were trying to accomplish with 40 chances. >> well, you know, both my mom and dad were phenomenal in terms of the opportunity they have given me and my brother and sister, and in my case, i spent a lot of time traveling ar

here with us the chairman and ceo of birkshire hathaway and chairman of the howard g. grandson at columbia university howard w. buffet, they're out with a new book "40 chances, finding hope in a hngry world." i will read this part of the forward you wrote, warren. nice to have you back on the show. i feel good about the fact that my children realize how lucky they have been. i feel even better because they have been decided to spend their lives sharing much of the product of that luck with others. they do not feel at all guilty because of their good fortune but they do feel thankful. >> i feel good and it hasn't been true all the way through their lives. it's hard to raise. how were they as teens? >> they have to be careful. they were normal teens. sort of on steroids. >> this is a labor of love. you wrote the forward. >> absolutely. >> tell me about the book. you guys co-wrote the book? >> yes. >> so son and grandson wrote the chapters together. how lovely. let's go from the youngest to the oldest and start with the gra grandson which is howard w. give us the sense of

howard. things are looking really, really g. i was just checking all of the different areas and all the cameras. i'm happy to say that volumes are still light coming in on 66, for example, from manassas into centreville and into fairfax. all lanes are open. no problems to report here as you travel through the annandale area, springfield on the northbound side of i-95 as well. we'll check out the american legion bridge on the west side of town so basically between bethesda and tysons corner. this is what you should expect across the potomac river. let's go back over to the maps this time southern maryland, route 4, route 5, route 301, all of your main corridors coming in from the south and all the way to the beltway and down into oxon hill and across the wilson bridge your lanes are open. volumes are very light on the beltway basically east side in prince george's county. we'll take another live look outside. here's what it looks like in springfield already beginning to load up down in quantico there was an early morning accident

howard. i like your pink tie, too. 3rd street between massachusetts avenue and g street, a water main break.ty going on there. just like yesterday beach drive northwest is closed between blagden avenue and the d.c.- maryland line because ever the government shutdown. again i think it's going to be 16th street that will be your easy years alternate route. no issues on 66 coming in from the west, manassas to fair fax. the beltway looks between between the toll road and springfield and annandale. northbound i-95 is running smoothly. most of your work zones are cleared up coming up from dale city all the way up the line to 395. we'll take a look at our maps again. the bw parkway, route 50, everything is good coming from annapolis and cheverly all the way down into the northeast corridor. we'll take a live look at route a at route 410 inside the beltway. in issues as you head for the anacostia river. back you to, andrea and mike. >> thank you, monika. >>> we're now in day three of the government shutdown. congressional leaders met with president obama at the white house last night to discuss a co

howard has details in the seven- day forecast. >> plus, we'll meet some local students who are rapping about their love for healthy food. this is really g. you don't want to miss -- really good. you don't want to miss it. ( telephone rings ) hi, honey. how's the camping trip? well, kids had fun, but i think i slept on a rock. what are you doing? having coffee. ah, sounds good! i thought you'd say that. ah. ♪ the best part of wakin' up... ♪ you're the best! wake up to the mountain grown aroma of folgers. ♪ ... is folgers in your cup! >>> a good friday morning. a cold one out there. temps in the 20s in spots. we'll be rising to the middle 50s this afternoon after the chill this morning. so even a cool to chilly afternoon. breezy, maybe not as windy as yesterday, some gusts to 20 miles an hour. then clear tonight. 51 by 7:00. you're going to have to bundle up for the high school football games if you're going out for those and 48 by 9:00 p.m. currently looking at temperatures in the upper 20s in places like manassas, dulles is down to 30. warrenton, stafford checked in with 29. last time i was looking up there. 32 at the tappahannock airpo

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g. gordon liddy, a former white house aide who was until the story broke, counselor to the committee, the finance committee of president nixon's campaign organization, and e. howardindictments charged that the five men broke into the watergate while liddy and hunt had actually intercepted telephone calls to and from democratic headquarters. >> there were calls from democrats for a special prosecutor an the story attracted plenty of attention. no one expected nixon to be directly implicated. the drip, drip, drip continued and by the spring of '73, the press and the public was starting to realize how serious the story was. the attorney general in two of nixon's top aides resigned and the president fired white house counsel john dean. that hardly settled the matter and the new attorney general elliott richardson appointed a special prosecutor, democrat named archibald cox. john dean told congress that nixon had multiple conversations about covering up the break-in, and cox discovered that the president had secret tape recordings of those meetings, cox demanded to hear the tapes which set off a high stakes legal battle, which brings us to october 1973, 40 years ago t

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